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Purple-rumped Sunbird
Leptocoma zeylonica · Family Nectariniidae
Leptocoma zeylonica
Family Nectariniidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Nectariniidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 671,089
- Countries and territories with records
- 6
About this species
This species has 671,089 occurrence records from 6 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (93.5%) and Sri Lanka (5.9%); together they account for 99.4% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 1% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Leptocoma zeylonica combines the genus name Leptocoma with the species epithet zeylonica. The Warbla app catalog lists 6 species of the genus Leptocoma; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Leptocoma minima, Leptocoma aspasia and Leptocoma sperata.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 136 species of the family Nectariniidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cinnyris asiaticus. Its record count is 22.2 times the family average (30,217). The family Nectariniidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.